avantia423
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- 1/5/20
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Hi all,
I posted earlier about my 5 week old budgie who is currently flightless. I was worried, but after the group analysed her wings we realised she is not clipped or plucked, she’s merely very young and hasn’t yet learnt to fly. She is showing pre flight behaviour like grabbing perches and flapping furiously.
I’ve only had her a few days and have tamed a parrotlet in the past so I’m a somewhat experienced owner, but I’m concerned here. I moved all her perches low so she won’t fall too far. However she does this thing where she rapidly climbs to the top of the cage once or twice a day and just hangs out up there, refuses or doesn’t know how to climb down. Eventually she gets sleepy and I’m worried about her falling. I know it’s a huge impediment to the taming process, but after an hour or so I tend to remove her from the top and put her low in fear she’ll hurt herself.
What should I do? Ignore the behaviour, does it mean something? The cage is 3 feet tall, cockatiel size, because I wanted to spoil her with room to fly and didn’t know she was flightless when I brought her home. One time she did fall before I could catch her, and I almost jumped out my seat, but she looked totally fine and unhurt. Not sure what to do here.
I posted earlier about my 5 week old budgie who is currently flightless. I was worried, but after the group analysed her wings we realised she is not clipped or plucked, she’s merely very young and hasn’t yet learnt to fly. She is showing pre flight behaviour like grabbing perches and flapping furiously.
I’ve only had her a few days and have tamed a parrotlet in the past so I’m a somewhat experienced owner, but I’m concerned here. I moved all her perches low so she won’t fall too far. However she does this thing where she rapidly climbs to the top of the cage once or twice a day and just hangs out up there, refuses or doesn’t know how to climb down. Eventually she gets sleepy and I’m worried about her falling. I know it’s a huge impediment to the taming process, but after an hour or so I tend to remove her from the top and put her low in fear she’ll hurt herself.
What should I do? Ignore the behaviour, does it mean something? The cage is 3 feet tall, cockatiel size, because I wanted to spoil her with room to fly and didn’t know she was flightless when I brought her home. One time she did fall before I could catch her, and I almost jumped out my seat, but she looked totally fine and unhurt. Not sure what to do here.